Is there any chance of seeing a sneak peak of that mutli-app code? Michael Latiolais [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: > Quoting Monge Maurizio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Hi, am new to this mailing list, i am C/C++ programmer and i am currently > > trying to improve the NVidia driver (i started reading the XFree nv driver > > code and utah-glx). > > Do you know if i could get additional info??? > > (other than by disassembling existing drivers :-) ). > > I have preprocessed code from nVidia, they released it last year. > I can send it to you by email (about 1.5Mb). > > > I would also pose this question: to make directfb working with many > > user-mode programs (i can currently run only 1 program with root > > provileges), there will not be the need of a kernel module?? > > How could a program be aware of the vidmem that has been allocated by > > other programs without a kernel mode surface manager??? > > I am currently working on the multi application core and can already > run many applications on the same desktop sharing DirectFB. > It's implemented via IPC, integrating it into the kernel would require > way too much work and too much of DirectFB would have to be integrated. > Besides that it's better to run with an unmodified kernel. > > > A kernel module is not a sin: > > It would be easy to create (a i have tried yet). > > Linux has web servers and a lot of other things in the kernel, i dont know > > why it shouldn't handle graphics too!!! > > There are many people that don't want graphics support in the kernel, > I also think that the kernel should only manage the device and give > userspace the ability to use it. The kernel should be able to recover > the device anytime, not more. For graphics cards this includes mode > switching, that's why we have the Linux Framebuffer Device. > > > I have read in the site that the multiapplication core is at the end of > > the todo section, while i think it should be at the beginning!!! > > I'm thinking the same and chose the multi app core as my current piece of work. > > > Even if it doesn't works well yet, let's make it usable first, then we'll > > make it work!!!!!! > > I think the multi app core will be released as an alpha version in the next > release, supposed to get out next week. > > -- > Denis Oliver Kropp > ( convergence ) > ( integrated media gmbh ) > > > -- > Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject. > -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-dev" as subject.
